It’s very creative and informative, but unless you have already seen video of the kitchen tap water on fire, you don’t quite get it. One of those instances should be IN THIS VIDEO to bring the message home. Otherwise, great. Thanks.

Clever but still full of all the same old false hyperbole. First, fracing is NOT a form of drilling. Second, fracing didn’t just magically start in 2005 when the Energy Policy Act was signed - the practice has been used for 50+ years. Third, Bush did not exempt fracing from the SDWA, it was never regulated under the SDWA as was reaffirmed numerous times by congress, often by the Democratic majority. I could go on and on. Time for both sides of this argument to deal in facts.

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Milt thinks he’s on top of the issue, but let me respond…First, high volume, slickwater, multistage, hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling into shale IS a new technology and process that has only been around since 2002, when multistage hydraulic fracturing was first introduced. This is the frac’ing process that we are talking about, not your grandpappy, 60 year old shallow, vertical drilling and frac’ing that only used up to 75,000 gallons of fluid, as opposed to at least 5 million gallons plus anywhere from 25,000 to 100,000 gallons of toxic chemicals, plus proppant that is often coated with acrylonitrile. These are the proportions used to frac a 5,000 foot lateral in shale (the chemical components are a proportion of between 1/2 of 1 % to 2% of the fluid). If you think these are the same processes, then, I’ll give you $75,000, you give me $5 million, ok?

Second, Congress and Bush did exempt frac’ing from a number of Federal laws, the SDWA and Clean Air act among them. The fact that the EPA never actively regulated frac’ing prior to the 2005 Energy Bill shaped by Bush, Cheney and the oil industry, is not the point. The EPA had the authority to do so prior to the 2005 Bill, and the 2005 Bill removed most of that authority from the EPA.

If the EPA had the authority, it would regulate every such multistage, horizontally drilled well as an “injection well”, for just starters. After all, in the Marcellus Shale, only between 10% and 20% of the toxic fluid injected at up to 15,000 psi is returning to the surface. Therefore, on a 5,000 foot lateral, between 4 million and 4.5 million gallons are remaining underground to migrate in ways that have not been studied. That, my friends, is an injection well by any other name, and if the authority had not been removed, the EPA would be regulating it.

Thank goodness, things seem to be changing, and the EPA is beginning to get back on the job.

LOVE IT…....great animation and art work well done! Although the are not being regulated I believe the reason is because they would definitely fail. I would love to see another one just like the other one only using a BAN ON FRACKING THEME!!! Good job people…very well done! (no pun intended)

It would behoove everyone to take a look at the research done by Dr. Theo Colburn and the Endocrine Disruption Exchange to see what chemicals comprise the fluids used in fracking. The potential dangers to our water supplies and the health of all who are exposed to these chemicals is not something to ignore in favor of “energy independence”, which will never happen in this country. Why else would we be at war in all the high energy producing countries?

I would add that in 1985, I lived in a house whose well was drilled through a coal seam filled with methane (Coal bed methane) and when I lit the kitchen faucet had a three foot flame….constant, not flashing. Full disclosure is that this did not have to do with fracking although this sort of gas migration is known to happen as a result of fracking. Another point of interest no one mentions is the fact that the US is now exporting natural gas…........why? if we want to be “energy independent”?

The video will do much justice to raise the awareness in the dangers of fracking. Underground disturbances in this process are the next “Erin Brockovich” movie expose for effects fracking negligence has caused to the populations and devastation in our precious waterways.

I liken the lax in regulatory policies to all those who place wealth and power above the value and worth of people. For it will be this open door that greed will beset those economically depressed towns under the guise that oil drilling will find reason as the answer to employment woes and economic stimulus.

At this time there is no ‘safety in fracking” to convince me otherwise.

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The promise of abundant natural gas is colliding with fears about water contamination.

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The country’s push to find clean domestic energy has zeroed in on natural gas, but cases of water contamination have raised serious questions about the primary drilling method being used. Vast deposits of natural gas, large enough to supply the country for decades, have brought a drilling boom stretching across 31 states. The drilling technique being used, called hydraulic fracturing, shoots water, sand and toxic chemicals into the ground to break up rock and release the gas.

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